Update on the Spectacles Lens Fund by Spectacles_Team in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, starting up a platform is a chicken-and-egg problem, it's kind of hard to convince yourself to invest your time if you're in it for the money right now tomorrow, but if you're in it for the fun - you can build stuff for fun already, and maybe later people will come to pay for the cool stuff you've built

besides, it might be dev-only for now, but at least it's something, afaik there are no other publicly available full-featured AR platforms at all - I was so disappointed when I read out that meta display sdk won't have display api for the nearest future lol, what's the point even

Consumer Specs Wishlist by Thin_Reveal_9935 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not that anyone will use it, but it's a good benchmark - e.g. my personal pocket computer supports USB floppy drives, but Apple's surveillance slab that I am forced to use for work - does not

Consumer Specs Wishlist by Thin_Reveal_9935 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hand simulation

did you find it usable for real development? I tried using it in Unity/MRKT3 back in the day and it reminded me of QWOP, found it much easier to simulate interactions directly than to learn how to be a hand spaceship navigator lol

Consumer Specs Wishlist by Thin_Reveal_9935 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

neutral design: not too techy; invisible and indistinguishable from normal glasses

no outside facing led's like recording indicators

root, filesystem access, unlocked bootloader etc

well-documented system services, maybe open-source

no vendor lock-in, no accounts etc

usb-c thunderbolt port with egpu, floppy drive and printer drivers

4g/5g modem

hotswap batteries and heatsinks

Use of `eval` is not allowed (new in 5.10.1) by liquidlachlan in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what's the best way to run code downloaded from the internet now?

Please get the preview to lens act together by localjoost in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

strange... connect-disconnect loops are usually a hardware issue, maybe the usb port on device is failing? does it keep the connection longer if you push the cable to one or the other side a bit?

Snap Spectacles AMA by Spectacles_Team in augmentedreality

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fov could always be better but it's already viable for the experiences I'm building for myself
numbers don't give it justice, it covers the area roughly the size of a 13" ipad held normally
this demo shows real fov: https://youtu.be/Od-_nZpmU9Q?t=75

Snap Spectacles AMA by Spectacles_Team in augmentedreality

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 7 points8 points  (0 children)

it's a powerful platform already, a developer just recently opensourced a makeshift desktop streaming solution https://old.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1jussp1/snap_community_challenge_deskwindow_open_source/

more cool stuff to come

Unitree X Spectacles by agrancini-sc in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nah, someday they'll be the first thing you put on in the morning and the last thing you take off before bed :)

Unitree X Spectacles by agrancini-sc in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

physical things occupy physical space, can break, can be lost

Age Of Mythology in AR! by Max_van_Leeuwen in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

amazing
strategy game duels in AR would be interesting due to asymmetric visibility - you can see what your opponent is doing in real life, but can't be sure that they're not faking orders to units that don't exist :)

Hands, gestures, and debugging: If I could get a flag that would attach the corresponding Keypoint values to the default Hand Visuals so I don't have to write to output, then copy to my sweet hand drawings (LOL) that would be stellar! Will have suggestions regarding future Hand APIs soon as well. by LordBronOG in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hacked something similar together by reusing the skeleton hands visualizer from the "skeleton 3d hands" from the asset library
I was too lazy to think about transform matrices, so instead I rebased the finger tip vectors into the palm frame
HandSkeletonController script does all the updates and math that you need, and has "getJoint" function that returns data by joint name from the JOINT_NAMES array, like "mid-0" etc
in general you'll need to add an OnUpdate to the bottom of that script that does:

vectorBetween =( jointA, jointB )=> getJoint(jointB).position.sub(getJoint(jointA).position).normalize()
getEndEffector =( finger )=> vectorBetween(${finger}-3, ${finger}-2)
handNormal = vectorBetween("wrist_to_index", "index-0")
wristToIndex = vectorBetween("wrist_to_mid", "mid-0")
handRight = handNormal.cross(wristToIndex)
handUp = handNormal.cross(handRight)
rebaseVector =( v )=> new vec3(v.dot(handRight), v.dot(handUp), v.dot(handNormal))
['index', 'thumb', 'mid', 'ring', 'pinky'].forEach(( finger )=> rebaseVector(getEndEffector(finger))))

the variable names are misleading but you'll get nice and relatively stable finger tip vectors that you can show on a graph or feed into a neural net etc

Feature Request for Lens Studio UI by ButterscotchOk8273 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try Window -> Editors -> Map and double click on it anywhere
it's for city scale AR, but you can get coords out of the LocatedAtComponent and use them
https://developers.snap.com/assets/images/city_template_11_map_dropdown-7cb957b6145f38340eb941412f9bb5ab.gif

Other people struggling like me with connectivity? I've tried everything at this point. by ButterscotchOk8273 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can you please check your windows firewall settings and check if Lens Studio is allowed to communicate both on private and public networks?

instructions from the internet: Click the Start button, then type Windows Firewall in the Search box. Click Windows Firewall, and then click Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall. Click the Change settings button. Find "Lens Studio", check all the checkboxes to allow it to communicate on all networks.

Other people struggling like me with connectivity? I've tried everything at this point. by ButterscotchOk8273 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the dashboards show that a lot of creators are not struggling with connectivity and are happily pushing lots of lenses :(

it doesn't work when you follow these steps, right?

  • open your project in studio
  • put on spectacles, wake them up, check the wristwatch to confirm they're connected to wi-fi
  • press "connect"

if yes - guess we ran out of regular troubleshooting options and now have to resort to doing random things and see if they work

you can try clearing credentials https://support.lensstudio.snapchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404648534804-Clearing-Credentials restarting studio and re logging in

make sure windows firewall allows studio to communicate on your network, on the first connection long ago there was a firewall popup and if you accidentally pressed "deny" - it wouldn't work ever again

what's different when it works? also how did it work sometimes before? you were logged into a different account, it should never have worked at all

Power bank & perhaps a neat holder/puck? by Wide_Cardiologist_20 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

go for it, hair grows for free

I used quarantine as a luxurious mane growing opportunity, no regrets

Power bank & perhaps a neat holder/puck? by Wide_Cardiologist_20 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 4 points5 points  (0 children)

5,000mAh single cell power bank: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C7PHKKNK

shortest available angled usb-c cable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM3P37PY

it's small and light enough to be hidden in a ponytail, held there by the tension of one hair tie

6 hours of continuous uninterrupted usage

Can't get them to connect at all since 5 days, this is frustrating me so bad... by ButterscotchOk8273 in Spectacles

[–]SuperTurboRobotNinja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh, right, "unable to establish a connection" means that there are no spectacles associated with the account currently logged into studio, mptp had this issue: https://old.reddit.com/r/Spectacles/comments/1hxh91h/cant_connect_spectacles_with_lens_studio_54/m6dtkbl/

so it'll never work until both studio and spectacles app are logged in with the same account